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STATUTES AND LAWS 



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HARVARD COLLEGE. 



CAMBRIDGE: 
METCALF AND COMPANY, 

PBINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

1854. 



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THE 



STATUTES AND LAWS 



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OF THE 



UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, 



AS REVISED AND ADOPTED BY THE CORPORATION 
ON THE 10th OF JUNE, 



AND 



CONCURRED IN BY THE OVERSEERS ON THE 
17th OF SEPTEMBER, 1848. 



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SECOND EDITION. 



CAMBRIDGE: 
METCALF AND COMPANY, 

printers to the university. 
1854. 



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PREFACE 



The last general revision of the Laws of the University 
took place in 1825, after a very protracted and laborious ex- 
amination. On this occasion many important changes 
were made in the laws, of which an edition, as revised, was 
published in that year. Another edition, with some slight 
changes, was published in 1826, and still another in 1828. 
Since then there has been no publication of all the laws of 
the University, and they may be considered, at this time, as 
out of "print. 

On the 17th May, 1832, President Quincy informed the 
Corporation that " a new edition of the statutes and laws 
would be requisite, and suggested the expediency of a new 
arrangement of the laws, and some modifications of them : 
" Whereupon, it was voted, that 

" The President be a committee for the above purpose." 
On the 19th of July, President Quincy reported a selec- 
tion from the general laws, under the title of " Statutes and 
Laws of Harvard University relative to Undergraduates " ; 
which was read and adopted by the Corporation on the 
same day. Such portions of the previously existing laws 
as were deemed to relate to the same matters were at the 
same time repealed. On the same day (19th of July, 1832) 
the newly adopted code of laws was laid before the Over- 
seers and referred to a committee of that body, with instruc- 
tions to report at the next meeting. At that meeting (23d 
of August, 1832), no report having been made by the Com- 
mittee, they were discharged from the farther consideration 
of the subject; and the Revised Statutes and Laws as 
adopted by the Corporation were concurred in, with one 
slight amendment, by the Overseers. 

To this selection of laws and statues relating to under- 
graduates, thus adopted by the Corporation and Overseers, 
were subsequently added the " Orders and Regulations of 
the Faculty of Harvard College," forming together the 
pamphlet edition of the laws, placed in the hands of stu- 
dents when admitted to the College. This pamphlet has 
been more than once reprinted. The last edition of the first 



portion — that is, " The Laws of Harvard University rela- 
tive to Undergraduates " — bears date in 1845 ; and the last 
edition of the " Orders and Regulations of the Faculty of 
Harvard College " bears date in 1847. 

The selection above described, and the repeal of a consid- 
erable part of the laws previously existing, seemed to render 
a revision and a republication of the residue necessary. 
Accordingly, on the 19th of June, 1834, it was voted by the 
Corporation, that fj the President be authorized to have 
printed those College laws which do not relate particularly 
to Undergraduates." In pursuance of this authority, a 
pamphlet was prepared by President Quincy, and printed in 
1834, under the title of " Statutes and Laws of the Univer- 
sity in Cambridge, Massachusetts." 

This collection was a revision as well as a selection of 
the laws, and consequently required for its adoption the ac- 
tion of the two boards of the College Government. It does 
not appear whether it was adopted by the Corporation. It 
was never submitted to the Overseers, and only those por- 
tions of it, therefore, possess the force of law which belong 
to the body of laws as previously existing. This pamphlet, 
though printed, was never published. 

Nothing farther was done for several years in reference to 
a revision of the laws. At length, on the 12th of Septem- 
ber, 1846, the President was requested, by a vote of the Cor- 
poration, " to consider and ascertain the present state of the 
College laws, and to make report." This vote of the Cor- 
poration was understood to contemplate a complete revision 
of the statutes and laws of the University. 

In pursuance of this order, on the 27th of November of 
the last year, a revised code of laws was reported by the 
President to the Corporation, and by them ordered to be 
privately printed, with a view to its consideration by the 
two Boards. At the following meeting, on the 27th of De- 
cember, it was laid before the Corporation in a printed form. 
It was ordered by the Corporation, at the same time, that a 
printed copy should be furnished to each member of the 
College Faculty and to the Faculty of each Professional 
School, with the request that they would submit to the Cor- 
poration, in writing, such remarks as they might think proper 
to make on any part of the proposed code. 

On the 15th of January, of the present year, the revised 
code, as reported by the President, was, in connection with 
the remarks of the members of the Faculties, taken up for 
consideration by the Corporation, at a special meeting 



called for this purpose, and it was farther considered at sev- 
eral adjourned meetings in the course of the winter and 
spring of 1848. Sundry amendments were adopted by the 
Corporation ; and on the 23d of May, 1848, the revised code 
was ordered to be printed, as amended at that and the pre- 
ceding meetings of the Board. Farther amendments were 
adopted at the meeting of the Corporation on the 27th of 
May, and on the 10th of June last the following orders were 
passed : — 

" Voted, That the Revised Laws of the College as sub- 
mitted at the last meeting be adopted by the Board, and it 
was ordered that the same be signed and certified by the 
Secretary. 

" Voted, that the President be requested to lay the laws 
as adopted before the Board of Overseers, that they may 
concur in the same if they see fit." 

Accordingly, on the 20th of July, the Laws, as revised, 
were laid before the Overseers, and by them referred to a 
committee. On the 17th of August, at an adjourned 
meeting of the Overseers, the subject was farther considered ; 
and on the 17th of September, at a special adjournment of 
the Board, the Overseers concurred with the Corporation in 
the adoption of the Laws as revised, with the exception of 
one paragraph, which was indefinitely postponed. 

The doings of the Overseers having been reported to the 
Corporation on the 21st of September last, it was ordered 
by that Board, that the Revised Statutes and Laws as en- 
acted by the Corporation and Overseers should be printed, 
under the direction of the President and Dr. Walker. 

The following edition has been accordingly prepared, and 
the Regulations of the College Faculty as recently amended 
have been subjoined, for the use of the Undergraduates. 

EDWARD EVERETT. 

Cambridge, November 16, 1848. 



A new edition of the Statutes and Laws of the University 
being required for distribution among the students, they are 
here reprinted, with no other alterations than those required 
by the change in the Board of Overseers, and by the modi- 
fication which has been made by the proper authorities in 
Articles 38 and 48. 



Cambridge, April 25, 1854. 



LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



CHAPTER I. 

General Organization and Government 

1. It is declared by the Constitution of the State to be the 
duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of 
the Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of " The Uni- 
versity at Cambridge." 

2. The Corporation and Overseers constitute the Govern- 
ment of the University, whose powers, rights, and duties are 
established by the act of the General Court of the Colony, 
of the year 1642, by the charter of 30th May, 1650, by the 
legislative acts supplementary thereto of various dates, both 
before and after the Revolution, and by the Constitution of 
the Commonwealth. 

3. The Corporation consists of the President, five Fellows, 
and a Treasurer, respectively chosen, when a vacancy occurs, 
by the remaining members, subject to the concurrence of the 
Overseers. Their legal style is " The President and Fellows 
of Harvard College." 

4. It is the duty of the President, as a member of the Cor- 
poration, to call meetings of the Board, and to preside at the 
same ; to execute their votes and measures, unless otherwise 
provided for ; to report to the Corporation those measures of 
the College Faculty which require their concurrence and ap- 
probation ; and to act as the ordinary medium of communi- 
cation between the Corporation and the Overseers. 

5. It is the duty of the Treasurer to have the custody of 
the property of the University ; to receive and duly to dis- 
pose of all moneys paid into the treasury ; to keep an ac- 
count of all moneys received and expended, and. to submit 
the same to the committees appointed for that purpose by 
the Corporation and the Overseers; and to make annually 



to the Overseers a general statement of the receipts and ex- 
penditures of the institution. 

6. The Treasurer gives bonds for the faithful performance 
of his duty, and is authorized to employ a clerk. 

7. A member of the Corporation is appointed to act as 
Secretary of the Board, whose duty it is to keep the record 
of the proceedings, and to furnish attested copies of the same 
when required. 

8. The Board of Overseers consists of the Governor, Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, the President of the Senate, and the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Common- 
wealth, the Secretary of the Board of Education, and the 
President and Treasurer of Harvard College, for the time be- 
ing, together with thirty other persons chosen by joint ballot 
of the Senators and Representatives of the Commonwealth, 
as directed by an Act passed May 22, 1851. 

9. His Excellency the Governor, or, in his absence, the 
Lieutenant-Governor, or, in the absence of both, the Presi- 
dent of the Senate, or, in the absence of all above named, the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, presides at the 
meetings of the Overseers ; but if none of the above-men- 
tioned persons be present, then the meeting elect a President 
pro tempore. A secretary is appointed by the Board, whose 
duty it is to keep the record of the proceedings, and to fur- 
nish attested copies of the same when required. 

10. It is the duty of the President to attend the meetings 
of the Board of Overseers ; to report the proceedings of the 
Corporation which require their concurrence ; to give notice 
of their appointment, and of the days of examination and 
visitation, to the committees appointed by the Overseers for 
the purpose of visiting the University and of examining the 
students ; and to make a report to the Overseers, at their 
legislative session, of the general condition of the University. 

11. The University consists of the Academical Depart- 
ment, and of the Divinity, Law, Medical, and Scientific 
Schools. Each is under the direction of its appropriate 
Faculty, of which the President is ex officio the head. 

12. The senior Professor of the Professional and Scientific 
Schools shall act as head of the Faculty of the same, and 
shall preside at its meetings and on its public occasions, un- 
less the President shall be present and preside. A dean may 
also be appointed by the Faculty of each Professional School, 
if deemed expedient by the Corporation. 



CHAPTER II. 

The Faculty of the College. 

13. The President, the Professors not exempted by the 
tenure of their office, and the Tutors, have the immediate 
care and government of the Undergraduates, and are denom- 
inated the " College Faculty." 

14. The Faculty have authority to make all orders and 
regulations necessary to the performance of their duties. 
They have the general control and direction of the studies 
pursued in the College. They have cognizance of all offences 
committed by Undergraduates, and it is their special duty to 
enforce the observance of all the laws and regulations for 
maintaining discipline, and promoting order, virtue, piety, 
and good learning, in the institution. 

15. In case of offences committed against the laws by stu- 
dents, not being Undergraduates, within the precincts of the 
College or in conjunction with Undergraduates, information 
of the same, when possessed by the College Faculty, shall 
be communicated to the Faculty of the School to which the 
offender belongs. If any offence be committed by a resident 
graduate, not connected with either of the Schools, he shall 
be subject to the withdrawal of his privileges as a resident 
graduate, or such other punishment as the College Faculty 
may think proper. 

16. The College Faculty are authorized to license teachers 
of the polite accomplishments and of exercises conducive to 
health, and the students are not permitted to attend teachers 
not thus licensed. 

17. The Faculty have authority to regulate the dress of 
the Undergraduates, giving seasonable notice to them and to 
their parents or guardians of all prescribed alterations. 

18. The Faculty shall statedly meet on Monday evening 
at the office of the President, or at any other time or place 
that may be appointed by the President or the Faculty, to 
perform the duties incumbent upon them, to communicate 
and compare their opinions and information respecting the 
conduct and character of the students and the state of the 
College, and to consider and suggest such measures as may 
tend to its improvement. 

19. The Professors and other officers, usually exempted 
from the duty of attending the meetings of the Faculty, 
shall, when requested by the President or by the Board, be 

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associated with, and act for the time as members of, the 
Board. 

20. It being the design of the Government of the Univer- 
sity that the Faculty should be invested with ample power 
to administer the instruction and discipline of the College, 
they are desired and expected, at all times, to propose to the 
Corporation any laws or measures which they may deem req- 
uisite or useful for the effectual discharge of their functions. 

21. It shall be the duty of the President to reside constant- 
ly in Cambridge ; to exercise a general superintendence over 
the concerns of the University ; to see that the course of in- 
struction and discipline is carried into effect ; and to give all 
orders necessary to that end, and not inconsistent with the 
laws. 

22. It is the duty of the President to preside on public 
Academic days ; to address instruction and counsel to the 
students, as he shall find opportunity ; to preside at all meet- 
ings of the College Faculty at which he is present, and to 
call extra meetings when necessary ; to carry on the official 
correspondence of the Academical Department of the Uni- 
versity ; to acquaint himself intimately with the state, inter- 
ests, and wants of the whole institution ; to study its growth, 
the increase of its resources, the extension of instruction, and 
the better adaptation of it to the state of science and of so- 
ciety ; to inquire into the execution of laws ; and to see that 
no law falls silently into disuse. 

23. He is to exercise and perform all such other powers 
and duties as the President has been accustomed to exercise 
and to perform, and which are not by these statutes assigned 
to the Faculty or to some other officer of the University. 

24. The President is authorized to employ a private secre- 
tary, whose compensation shall be determined by the Corpo- 
ration. 

25. The Professors, unless specially exempted, are con- 
stantly to reside in Cambridge, having an apartment in the 
University, or dwelling near it ; and the Tutors and Proctors 
are to reside in the College buildings, the rooms appropriated 
to them being assigned according to seniority. 

26. The Professors, Tutors, Librarian, and other officers, 
shall perform such services in their respective offices as have 
been or may be assigned to them by the Government of the 
University. 

27. The Faculty will appoint one of their number to act 
as the particular officer of each class, and to serve as the or- 
dinary medium of communication between the student and 



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the Faculty. Applications for leave of absence from prayers, 
when necessary, will be made to him ; and all warnings and 
private admonitions ordered by the Faculty for neglect of 
duty or misconduct will be given by him. 

28. All the officers of instruction and government in the 
University are chosen by the Corporation, with the concur- 
rence of the Overseers, and are subject to removal for inade- 
quate performance or neglect of duty, or misconduct. 

29. Before entering upon the duties of their offices, respec- 
tively, the Professors shall subscribe their names to the stat- 
utes of their professorships ; and the Librarian, Tutors, and 
Proctors shall subscribe their names to an engagement to 
perform the duties of their several offices ; in books kept for 
those purposes by the President. 

30. The Proctors have the same authority as members of 
the Faculty in the immediate inspection and government of 
the College, and within the precincts of the University ; and 
any resistance or insult offered to them will be proceeded 
against as if offered to a member of the Faculty. 

31. Monitors are appointed, and their duties and compen- 
sation fixed, by the Faculty. 

32. Presents to the officers of the University from any class 
or individuals in a class are prohibited ; and all officers are 
enjoined to decline their acceptance, if tendered. 

33. The Director of the Observatory, the Professor of Nat- 
ural Philosophy, the Rumford Professor, and the Librarian, 
being intrusted with valuable property belonging to the Uni- 
versity, shall respectively give a receipt for the same, in such 
form as the Corporation may direct. 

34. No person shall hold any executive office in the Col- 
lege who has the pastoral care of a church, the church of the 
University excepted, or who holds any civil office except the 
office of justice of the peace ; and whoever shall accept such 
pastoral care, or any civil office, except that of justice of the 
peace, shall be considered as resigning his place, and the 
same shall be void, and a new election shall take place. 

35. One of the Faculty shall be appointed by the Corpo- 
ration to the office of Registrar, who shall receive a salary to 
be determined by the Corporation. He shall keep a record 
of the votes and orders passed by the College Faculty, give 
certified copies of the same when requisite, and perform such 
other duties, properly pertaining to the office of Registrar, as 
may be directed by the President or the Faculty. 



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CHAPTER III. 

Of Admission and Matriculation. 






36. No one shall be admitted to the College unless he have 
a good moral character, certified in writing by his preceptor, 
or some other suitable person. 

37. The qualifications for admission shall from time to 
time be determined by the Faculty, subject to the approba- 
tion of the Corporation. 

38. The examinations for admission shall be held during 
Commencement week, at such time and place as shall be 
prescribed by the Faculty, and public notice of the same 
shall be given by the President. No candidate will be ex- 
amined unless it is intended that, if admitted, he shall im- 
mediately join his class. 

39. No person coming at any other time will be received 
for examination except at the commencement of a term, un- 
less in extraordinary cases, at the discretion of the Faculty. 

40. Students may be admitted to advanced standing till 
the commencement of the Senior year, on such conditions as 
shall be from time to time prescribed by the Faculty. Each 
student thus admitted shall pay to the Steward a sum at the 
rate of forty-five dollars per annum, according to the stand- 
ing to which he is admitted. But any student who has been 
regularly graduated at another college, or dismissed in good 
standing, may be admitted to the class which he is found 
qualified on examination to enter, without any pecuniary 
consideration. The payment for advanced standing is also 
remitted to students in indigent circumstances. 

41. If it should appear, on examination, that the candidate, 
though believed, on the whole, to be capable of pursuing the 
studies of the class for which he is offered, is yet deficient in 
certain branches, he may be admitted on condition of mak- 
ing up the deficiency ; and for this purpose he may be placed 
under a private instructor in the specified branches, at the 
expense of the student. 

42. If the candidate is found qualified, on examination, he 
is admitted to join the class on probation, and he shall not 
be matriculated as a member of the University in full stand- 
ing, until after one term. 

43. The time of probation may be prolonged, at the dis- 
cretion of the Faculty, to a period not exceeding one year. 
If, during the time of his probation, a student shall fail to 



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exhibit a satisfactory degree of diligence in study, disposi- 
tion to good order, and obedience jrto law, or if he fail to 
comply with the conditions on which he may have been ad- 
mitted, or if, upon any other ground, it be deemed by the 
Faculty not advisable that he should become a member of 
the University, his connection with it shall cease. 

44. No application for the admission of a person thus sep- 
arated from the institution shall be received till after the 
interval of a year, and only upon the production of satisfac- 
tory testimonials of good conduct during the whole time of 
his separation. If again accepted, on examination, he shall 
be put on probation, as before ; and if, during this second 
probation, he shall be again separated from the University, 
his separation shall be final. 

45. Every person admitted upon examination must give a 
bond, with sureties, of which one, at least, is a resident citi- 
zen of Massachusetts, to the satisfaction of the Steward, in 
the sum of four hundred dollars, for the payment of all Col- 
lege dues, according to the laws and customs of the Univer- 
sity. Every person admitted as a student shall, on the first 
day of the term, or as soon after as may be, exhibit to the 
President a certificate from the Steward that a bond has 
been given as required. He shall then sign the following 
acknowledgment, viz. : — ".I acknowledge, that, having been 
admitted to the University at Cambridge, I am subject to its 
laws." The President shall thereupon deliver him a printed 
copy of the College Laws. 

46. Members of the Professional and Scientific Schools, 
forming part of the University, shall sign a similar acknowl- 
edgment, in the presence of a member of the Faculty of the 
School to which the candidate is admitted, to be designated 
for the purpose. 

47. Graduates of the University, or of other collegiate in- 
stitutions, desirous of pursuing their studies at Cambridge 
without joining any of the Professional Schools, are permit- 
ted to do so, in the capacity of Resident Graduates. They 
are allowed to attend the public lectures given in the insti- 
tution, and to enjoy the use of the library and the scientific 
collections, on the payment of such fees as are or may be 
provided. They give the same bonds as Law Students for 
the payment of College dues, and are subject to the same 
laws and regulations, as far as they are applicable. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Devotional Exercises, and the Observance of the Lordh Day. 

48. Divine service is performed in the College Chapel, in 
the forenoon- and afternoon of the Lord's day, and on the 
day of the annual Fast, and all officers of instruction and 
government in the University, residing at Cambridge, are 
expected to attend the same, or the stated service of some 
other place of Christian worship ; — there is also a daily de- 
votional service in the College Chapel, morning and evening, 
which the Parietal officers are expected to attend. 

49. The students of the College shall constantly, season- 
ably, and with due reverence, attend the daily devotional ex- 
ercises of the Chapel, morning and evening, and the religious 
exercises of the Chapel on the Lord's day, and the days of 
the annual Fast and of the Dudleian Lecture, and at such 
other times as their attendance may be required by the au- 
thority of the University. 

50. Every student is required on the Lord's day to abstain 
from all behavior inconsistent with that sacred season. 

51. Any student may attend, on the Lord's day, the pub- 
lic service of any denomination of Christians having a place 
of worship in Cambridge, on his application to the President 
in writing, if of legal age, or, if a minor, on the application 
of his parent or guardian, stating that such worship is that 
in which he has been educated, or which, from conscientious 
motives, he is desirous of attending. Seats shall be provided 
at the expense of the College. 

52. Permission is given, also, on similar application, to 
students whose residence is in the neighborhood of Cam- 
bridge, to pass Sunday and to attend worship with their 
families at home. At the commencement of each term, the 
certificate of the parent or guardian is required, that such 
attendance has been regularly given. 






CHAPTER V. 

Study Hours, Course of Instruction, and Attendance on Liter- 
ary Exercises. 

53. Study hours shall be regulated from time to time by 
the College Faculty. 






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54. In these hours the students are required to remain in 
their rooms, and not to leave them, except for the perform- 
ance of some duty, or for some sufficient reason ; and to ab- 
stain, not only from all disorderly noises, but from all noises 
which may cause interruption to others, such as loud conver- 
sation, singing, playing on a musical instrument, or the like. 

55. Instruction is given in the Academical Department of 
the University in the following departments or schools, 
viz. : — 1. Latin ; 2. Greek ; 3. Hebrew and other Oriental 
Languages; 4. Modern Languages ; 5. English Grammar, 
Composition, Rhetoric, and Oratory ; 6. Mathematics (Theo- 
retical and Practical) ; 7. Natural Philosophy, including As- 
tronomy ; 8. Chemistry, and the application of the Sciences 
to the Arts ; 9. Natural History, including Mineralogy and 
Geology, Botany, and Zoology ; 10. Intellectual, Moral, and 
Political Philosophy ; 11. History, Political Economy, and 
the Constitution of the United States ; 12. The Evidences 
of Natural and Revealed Religion. 

56. The Professors and other instructors in each depart- 
ment shall perform such duties as shall from time to time 
be assigned to them. The Professor, or senior instructor, 
where there is more than one, shall be deemed the head of 
the department, and generally responsible for the same ; and 
shall make a report relating to his department, with such 
observations and recommendations as to studies and dis- 
cipline as may appear useful, semiannually to the President, 
to be submitted to the committees appointed by the Over- 
seers to visit the University. 

57. The lectures and exercises to be attended and per- 
formed by the students shall be arranged from time to time 
in the manner most favorable to their progress. The ar- 
rangement of the prescribed duties of the Professors and 
Tutors, and of the prescribed studies ; the times and modes 
of recitation ; the division of the students into sections; and, 
in general, the methods of instruction, are committed to the 
Faculty, subject at all times to the control of the Corpora- 
tion. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Of Weekly and Monthly Returns^ and the Scale of Merit. 

58. A monthly return is made to the Faculty by each in- 
structor of the marks allowed by him to the students respec- 



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tively for their performance of the several exercises ; and 
any student who shall have been present at any recitation 
or exercise, and not examined, shall nevertheless receive for 
the same the average of the marks allowed him for the 
recitations and exercises at which he was examined. 

59. A student may be permitted, on petition to the Fac- 
ulty, to make up a recitation or other exercise from which 
he was absent and has been excused, provided his applica- 
tion to this effect be made within the term in which the ab- 
sence occurred. 

60. In case of long-continued absence on account of ill- 
health, or on leave to keep school, or otherwise, for reasons 
satisfactory to the Faculty, the student may be examined in 
all the studies pursued by his class in his absence, and re- 
ceive such an allowance of marks as to the instructor shall 
seem equitable. 

61. A weekly return is made to the College Faculty by 
each instructor, in which are noted all absences and tardi- 
nesses, all misconduct at recitations, and any other circum- 
stance which ought to be considered in the general estimate 
of merit and conduct. 

62. If any recitation or other exercise be omitted by an 
instructor, he will report that fact in his weekly return. 

63. At the close of the first term of the Freshman year, a 
scale of merit is formed, by adding together the marks given 
to each student by the several instructors in their monthly 
returns; and at the end of each successive term the aggre- 
gates of the marks of said term are added to the previous 
amount of each student, in order to the formation of a new 
scale. 

64. A student entering in advanced standing receives a 
place on the scale according to his performance during the 
first term after his admission, as compared with the mean 
of the performance of the three students most nearly ap- 
proaching him; and a student returning to the University 
after a temporary separation, receives a place on the scale 
upon the same principle. 

65. In cases where a marked and decided improvement 
of conduct and scholarship has taken place on the part of 
any student, the Faculty may assign him, at the close of the 
year, a new place on the scale, as in the case of a student 
returning after separation. 

66. All questions relative to the scale shall be decided by 
the Faculty, and the scale shall be the general rule in refer- 
ence to which all honors and rewards in the College shall be 
assigned. 






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67. A deduction from the aggregate of the marks of each 
student shall be made on the scale for all unexcused tardi- 
nesses at the religious or literary exercises, and all unex- 
cused absences from them, for all lessons not satisfactorily 
prepared, and for every negligence or act of misconduct at 
recitations or elsewhere, for which the Faculty shall deem 
such deduction a sufficient punishment. 

68. At the close of each term, a student who has failed to 
pursue any study to the satisfaction of the Faculty may be 
required to remain in Cambridge in the vacation, till he has 
made up the deficiency, under an instructor to be approved 
by the President, or he may be allowed to pursue the study 
at home under an approved instructor, subject in either case 
to examination before he can be permitted to rejoin his class. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Public Examinations. 

69. The several classes are examined, from time to time, 
by committees appointed by the Board of Overseers, from 
their own body, or from the community at large. 

70. To carry this design into effect, a day shall be ap- 
pointed by the Faculty for the examination of each class in 
every branch of study pursued by them, at such times as the 
Faculty may deem it expedient. Seasonable notice of the 
appointed day shall be given by the President to each mem^ 
ber of the examining committees. 

71. The members of the examining committees will be re- 
quested to indicate the merit of each student's performance 
by a numerical scale ; and the mean of the marks given to 
each student by the members of the committee present, 
multiplied by ten, shall be entered on the scale to his credit. 
In like manner, the instructor, who will at all times attend 
the examination in his department, will mark the perform- 
ance of each student as at the daily recitations, which mark, 
multiplied by ten, shall be entered to his credit on the scale. 
Unauthorized or unexcused absences from the public exami- 
nation shall subject the student to such a deduction from 
the scale of merit, or to such other punishment, as the 
Faculty may prescribe. 

72. The committees of examination make report to the 
Overseers of the general condition of the department, and of 

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the degree of thoroughness and exactness with which each 
branch of study has been pursued. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Rewards and Encouragements. 



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The following rewards and encouragements for literary 
exertion and good conduct have been established in the 
University : — 

1. Deturs. 

73. The President, consulting with the Professors and 
Tutors, will, in the early part of each Academic year, make 
a present of books, from the foundation of Edward Hopkins, 
to such students of the Sophomore Class as shall have 
made meritorious progress in their studies. 

74. He will also, as far as the state of the fund admits, 
make a similar present, at the commencement of the Junior 
year, to those members of the Junior Class who entered as 
Sophomores, and who have made meritorious progress in 
their studies during the Sophomore year, and to such Juni- 
ors as, having failed to receive a detur at the commence- 
ment of the Sophomore year, shall, during that year, make 
decided improvement in scholarship. 

2. Bowdoin Prizes. 

75. Prizes are annually awarded by the Faculty to such 
Resident Graduates and members of the Senior and Junior 
Classes as shall write the best and second-best dissertations 
on subjects given out for that purpose. The merit of the 
dissertations shall be adjudged by committees appointed 
for that purpose by the Faculty, but not of their own 
number. 

76. Prizes in Latin versification will also annually be 
awarded by the Faculty to the members of the several 
classes, the merit of the compositions to be adjudged by the 
Latin department acting with the President on behalf of the 
Faculty. 

The foregoing prizes are paid from the income of a fund 
bequeathed by James Bowdoin, " for the advancement of 
useful and polite literature among the residents, as well 
Graduates as Undergraduates of the University, in such 



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way and manner as shall be best adapted to excite a spirit 
of emulation among such residents." 

3. The Boylston Prize Fund. 

77. Agreeably to the institution of the " Boylston Prizes 
for Elocution," on the day after Commencement in each 
year, there will be held in University Hall, or in the First 
Church in Cambridge, a public exhibition and trial of the 
skill and improvement of the students of the University in 
elocution. The speakers are not to rehearse their own com- 
position ; but a to select pieces, in prose or verse, from Eng- 
lish, Greek, or Latin authors, the selections to be approved 
by the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The 
proportion in English is to be, at least, two out of three. 
The competitors must be Graduates of the year, or Under- 
graduates of one of the two next classes. The Corporation 
will each year appoint five gentlemen, distinguished for their 
elocution, either at the bar, in the pulpit, or in the senate, 
who, with the Corporation, or a major part of them, will 
judge of the merits of the competitors, and award the prizes. 
They will assign five prizes ; two first-prizes, namely, fifteen 
dollars or a gold medal of that value, to each of the two best 
speakers ; and three second-prizes, namely, ten dollars or a 
gold medal of that value, to each of the three next best : Pro- 
vided, that, if the judges shall be of opinion that none of the 
competitors have exhibited sufficient skill and improvement 
to be entitled to the first prizes, they may withhold them. At 
this exhibition, no prompting of the speakers will be allowed, 
and a failure of memory in any one will exclude him from 
being considered in the assignment of the prizes. 

4. Beneficiary Foundations and Monitors/dps. 

78. In the selection of candidates for the various benefici- 
ary foundations, such as the Saltonstall, Pennoyer, Alford, 
Hollis, and Stoughton Scholarships, the preference will be 
given to those who are of exemplary conduct and scholar- 
ship. 

79. The same preference will be given to meritorious stu- 
dents in the appointment of monitors ; and no student who 
is a College beneficiary shall remain such any longer than 
he' shall continue exemplary for sobriety, diligence, and or- 
derly conduct. 

5. Exhibitions. 

80. There are two public exhibitions each year ; namely, 



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one at each of the semiannual visitations of the committee 
of the Overseers. The exercises for the exhibitions are as- 
signed by the Faculty to meritorious students of the two 
higher classes. They consist of original compositions for 
the Seniors, and of translations into and from various lan- 
guages for the Juniors. The refusal of a student to perform 
the part assigned him, on either of these occasions or any 
act of indecorum in its performance, will be regarded as a 
high offence. Every performer shall deliver to the President, 
one week at least before the exhibition, a fair copy of his 
performance. At such times as may be appointed by the 
Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, each performer shall re- 
hearse his part. If any one shall make additions to what is 
contained in the copy delivered by him to the President, or 
other presiding officer, or shall speak anything in public 
which he has been directed to omit, he shall suffer punish- 
ment according to the aggravation of the offence. 

6. Commencement and Academical Degrees. 

81. The Annual Commencement is on the third Wednes- 
day in July, on which occasion the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts is publicly conferred in course on each member of the 
Senior Class in good standing. 

82. No student is recommended by the Faculty to the 
Government of the University for the Bachelor's or first de- 
gree, unless on the production of a certificate from the Stew- 
ard that he has paid his College dues, and one from the Li- 
brarian that he is not a delinquent at the Library ; which 
certificates must be produced on the day before the Com- 
mencement, at furthest, or the degree will not be conferred 
that year. 

83. A public literary exhibition takes place at the Univer- 
sity on Commencement day, previous to conferring the de- 
grees. The parts in the performances are assigned by the 
Faculty ; and no student, although otherwise qualified, will 
receive a degree who refuses or neglects to perform his part, 
or who performs it in an unbecoming manner. 

84. Each performer at the Commencement shall deliver a 
fair copy of his performance to the President or presiding 
officer, within such time as shall be prescribed previously to 
the Commencement. 

85. If any one shall make additions to what is contained 
in the copy delivered by him to the President or other pre- 
siding officer, or shall utter anything in public which he has 
been direeted to omit, he shall not be suffered to proceed, 
and shall be liable to lose his degree. 



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86. Every candidate for a first degree shall wear a black 
dress and the usual black gown. 

87. The degree of Master of Arts is conferred in course on 
every Bachelor of Arts of three years' standing, on payment 
of the usual fee, who shall, in the interval, have sustained a 
good moral character. 

88. The degree of Bachelor of Laws and Doctor in Medi- 
cine shall be conferred on students in the Law and Medical 
Schools, respectively, who have fulfilled the conditions of the 
statutes of those Schools. 

89. Students in the Scientific School, not graduates of any 
collegiate institution, shall receive an appropriate certificate 
on leaving the School. The degree of Bachelor in Science 
is also conferred on certain conditions. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Discipline. 

90. It is earnestly desired by the Government and Facul- 
ty of the University, that the students may be influenced to 
good conduct and diligence in study by higher motives than 
the fear of punishment ; and they mainly rely, for the suc- 
cess of the institution as a place of liberal education, on 
moral and religious principle, a sense of duty, and the gener- 
ous feelings which belong to young men engaged in honor- 
able pursuits. When these motives fail, the Faculty will 
have recourse to friendly caution and warning, to private 
and public admonition, — which last is accompanied with 
official notice to parents or guardians, — and, where the na- 
ture and circumstances of the case require it, to suspension, 
dismission, and expulsion. Fines shall only be imposed by 
vote of the Faculty. 

91. All instances of the violation of the laws of the Col- 
lege, by disorderly conduct, by absence from stated exercises, 
or by the negligent performance of prescribed duties, will be 
recorded, and formally reported to the Faculty, at set times, 
and whenever occasion requires ; and it is the duty of the 
Professors, Tutors, and all other College officers, at all times, 
to aid the President in enforcing the laws and maintaining 
the discipline of the institution ; to send to their rooms all 
students assembled in an illegal and disorderly manner ; to 
notice on the spot all violations of the law, when necessary; 
and to lay before the Faculty all cases of misconduct requir- 
ing further censure. 



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92. Whenever a student is found to be delinquent, he 
shall be liable to be deprived of any such indulgence as may- 
be granted to exemplary students, with respect to absence, 
going out of town, and the like, — to have particular por- 
tions of study prescribed to him, to be performed during the 
vacation, or at other times, — and to forfeit all claims to the 
distinctions and rewards provided for the meritorious ; and, 
if he persist in such delinquency, he may be suspended, or 
subjected to higher punishment. 

93. By suspension for negligence, a student may be sepa- 
rated from his class, as to those branches of study in which 
he is deficient, and placed under private instruction provided 
for the purpose in the city of Cambridge. 

94. Every person so suspended is required to perform ex- 
ercises with the person or persons under whose care he is 
placed, at such times and in such manner as the Faculty 
shall direct ; and he is not permitted to leave the city of 
Cambridge during the time of his suspension, without spe- 
cial leave for some very urgent reason ; the same rules and 
restrictions being in force in vacation as in term time. And 
in no case shall he be restored to good standing, till he shall 
have given entire satisfaction for at least three months, by 
orderly conduct and diligent and faithful application to his 
studies. 

95. It is provided, however, that a student, suspended 
either for negligence, or for any violation of the laws, may, 
when the Faculty shall think it expedient, be removed from 
the College and the city of Cambridge, and placed under the 
care of a suitable person ; and he shall be subject to restric- 
tions and requisitions similar to those above mentioned, and 
be required to bring satisfactory testimonials of good conduct, 
and be examined for restoration. 

96. Dismission is the separation of a student from the 
College for an indefinite or for a limited time, at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty ; and no dismissed student shall be re- 
admitted to his own or any other class, without satisfactory 
testimonials of good conduct during his separation, and his 
appearing, on examination, to be well qualified for such re- 
admission. 

97. Expulsion is the highest Academical censure, and is a 
final separation from the University. 

98. In all instances of offence against the laws and dis- 
cipline of the College, or against good morals, to which no 
specific penalties are annexed in the laws, the Faculty may 
inflict such of the punishments before mentioned as they 
shall think just and requisite. 



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99. When an offence is repeated, the Faculty will not or- 
dinarily have recourse to the same punishment as at first, 
but will proceed to inflict successively higher punishments, 
until the student is reclaimed, or separated from the College. 

100. When offences are committed by or in the presence 
of numbers, the Faculty may select for punishment those 
whom they may believe, on reasonable grounds, to have been 
actors in or abettors of the same. 

101. In all cases of gross injuries or depredations upon the 
property of the University or others ; or of gross trespasses 
or injuries done to persons or property within the precincts 
of the University, or charged upon any of its members ; or 
whenever the nature and circumstances of the offence re- 
quire, prosecution will be instituted before the established 
tribunals of the State. 

102. Whenever the Faculty are satisfied that a student is 
not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the College, or 
that he is not likely to fulfil them, or that he is from any 
cause an unfit member thereof, it shall be their duty to dis- 
miss him : Provided, however, that the Faculty may, when- 
ever they see fit, acquaint the parent or guardian of such 
student with his character and conduct, and leave it to such 
parent or guardian to remove him. 



CHAPTER X. 

High Offences and Misdemeanors, 

103. High offences may be punished, at the discretion of 
the Faculty, with any of the College punishments. Misde- 
meanors are less offences, and may receive any censure be- 
low suspension, or, if repeated or persisted in, some higher 
punishment. 

High offences are, — 

1. Irreverent, disorderly, or unseemly conduct in the chap- 
el, or at church : — gross violations of the respect due to the 
Faculty or other officers of the University: — riotous and 
noisy behavior, to the disturbance of the University or of the 
inhabitants of Cambridge : — refusing or neglecting to at- 
tend, when sent for by the Faculty or any officer : — disobe- 
dience to the sentence of the Faculty, or a committee there- 
of, for any offence : — obstructing or resisting the instructors 
or other officers in the discharge of their duties, or encourag- 



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ing similar acts in others : — challenging, assaulting, or en- 
deavoring to injure any student : — wilfully defacing or in- 
juring the edifices of the University, or any furniture, appa- 
ratus, books, or other valuable property in any apartment 
thereof. 

2. Combinations to resist or disobey the Faculty or laws 
of the College. In such cases, if so many be actors or abet- 
tors as to render it inexpedient to punish all concerned, the 
Faculty will select for punishment as many of the offenders 
as they may judge necessary to secure the end of punish- 
ment; and those who have been the most culpable, when 
known, shall be selected ; and also the two oldest of those 
concerned in the offence, if deemed expedient by the Fac- 
ulty. 

3. Holding, or being present at, any class-meeting without 
special license from the President, or for any other purpose 
or purposes, or at any other time, than those expressed in 
the license, or at any times that shall interfere with any Col- 
lege exercise. 

4. Profane language : — intoxication : — indecency in lan- 
guage, dress, or behavior : — dissoluteness, or other gross 
immorality : — habitual extravagance, after due admonition : 

— playing at any game for money or other things of value : 

— associating with any person under sentence of suspension, 
dismission, or expulsion ; or with any other prohibited per- 
son ; or with any person of known vice and dissoluteness : 

— any offence against the laws of the land, subjecting the 
offender to disgraceful punishment. 

5. Keeping any gun, pistol, gunpowder, or explosive ma- 
terial, or firing or using the same, in the city of Cambridge : 

— being concerned in any bonfire, fireworks, or unauthorized 
illuminations : — being an actor or spectator at any theatri- 
cal or operatic entertainment in term time : — making or be- 
ing present at any entertainment within the precincts of the 
University, at which intoxicating liquors of any kind are 
served : — going to any tavern or victualling-house in Cam- 
bridge for the purpose of eating or drinking, except in the 
presence of a parent, guardian, or Patron. 

Misdemeanors, or minor offences, are, — 

1. All such as are not enumerated as high offences. 
Among these are the following : — Keeping any dog, horse, 
or other animal, in the city of Cambridge, without leave first 
obtained from the Faculty: — playing at cards or dice: — 
disobedience to any of the rules and regulations of the Col- 
lege, and disrespectful and unbecoming language or conduct, 
not amounting to a high offence. 



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2. Attending, during term time, the instruction of any 
person who is not an officer of the University, without spe- 
cial permission from the Faculty. 



CHAPTER XL 

Of Vacations, and Absence from College. 

104. The Academical year is divided into two terms of 
twenty weeks each, and two vacations of six weeks each. 
Commencement day is on the third "Wednesday of July, and 
is followed by the first vacation. 

105. At the end of each vacation, the accustomed relig- 
ious exercises of the Chapel shall commence on Thursday 
morning, and the literary exercises, at the hour indicated for 
that purpose in the printed tabular statement of studies ; and 
all students coming back to College after a vacation, or an 
absence on leave, shall attend the first exercise for their class, 
whether devotional or literary, which takes place after their 
return. 

106. The students have leave to pass the annual Thanks- 
giving with their friends, and for this purpose are allowed 
to be absent from College from Tuesday evening preceding 
to Sunday evening following that day. A similar recess 
takes place in the course of the second term, beginning on 
the Tuesday preceding the last Wednesday of May. 

107. There are no literary exercises in College on Christ- 
mas day, nor on the Fourth of July. 

108. With the foregoing exceptions, no student shall be 
allowed to be absent from College over night, in term time, 
without leave previously obtained of the President, or the 
officer designated for that purpose. 

109. Any student, who shall have received leave of ab- 
sence from any other member of the Faculty than the Pres- 
ident, shall lodge the same in his office before leaving town ; 
where also shall be deposited, before dinner on Monday of 
each week, every certificate of excuse for absence, signed by 
a parent or guardian, or by the Patron, or by some friend 
residing in the vicinity of Cambridge. If the student be of 
legal age, his own written excuse is accepted, provided that, 
in all cases where a physician, surgeon, or dentist has been 
consulted, his certificate shall be required, stating when the 
absence by him regarded as necessary begins and ends, 

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110. Parents or guardians, requesting that students may 
have a temporary leave of absence, or furnishing written ex- 
cuses on their return, will state particularly the cause of the 
absence ; and it is considered by the Government of the 
College that only causes of an urgent and highly imperative 
nature justify the withdrawal of a student from his academic 
duties, and such only will be received as an adequate ex- 
cuse. 

111. Meritorious students, whose circumstances require it, 
may, at the discretion of the Faculty, be absent for a limited 
time, not exceeding six weeks, for the purpose of keeping 
schools ; the studies and exercises of their class, during the 
time of their absence, being afterwards performed by them, 
according to the rules the Faculty may establish. 

112. No student, who is not an inhabitant of the city of 
Cambridge, shall remain in Cambridge during any vacation 
without leave from the Faculty ; and all students remaining 
in Cambridge during the vacations shall be subject to the 
laws enjoining orderly conduct, and to those respecting the 
lodging and boarding houses of the students. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Rooms, and their Occupation. 

113. The Faculty will assign the rooms in the College, 
giving notice thereof in all cases to the Steward. 

114. Students shall statedly reside in the rooms assigned 
to them. No student shall change his room without leave 
of the President. No student shall suffer any one to lodge 
at his room without leave from one of the Faculty. 

115. In all cases of disorder in any room, the occupants 
shall be responsible. Any member of the Faculty, and any 
Proctor, is authorized to enter the room of a student, when- 
ever in the opinion of such officer it is necessary to do so, in 
order to suppress disorder ; and, if the door be fastened with- 
in, he may use or cause to be used the force required to open 
it, and any damage thus accruing to the room shall be made 
good at the expense of the occupant or occupants. 

116. When two students occupy a roon> each shall sup- 
ply his proportion of furniture and fuel, during the whole 
time for which the room is assigned, whether he be present 
or absent. 



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117. No student shall lodge or board out of the College, 
except at such houses as are approved by the Faculty, and 
with the approbation of a parent or guardian, if the student 
is under age ; and no houses will be so approved, except 
such as conform to the regulations the Faculty may estab- 
lish. 

118. Every student lodging or boarding out of College 
shall report to the President his place of boarding or lodg- 
ing, and also every change in the same. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

Damage done to Buildings or Property of the University. 

119. Any student, who shall damage, destroy, or purloin 
property belonging to the University, shall make good the 
same ; and he may also be assessed, at the discretion of the 
Faculty, an amount not exceeding threefold the actual dam- 
age done, to be appropriated to reducing the general charge 
for damages on the students at large ; or he may suffer any 
of the statutory punishments, according to the nature and 
circumstances of the offence. 

120. If the perpetrator be not discovered, damage, when 
done to any inhabited room or study, shall be made good by 
the occupants ; when done to an entry, by an equal assess- 
ment upon those inhabiting the entry ; when done to any 
public seat, table, or room, by an equal assessment upon 
those who occupy such seat, table, or room ; and when any 
other property belonging to the University is damaged, or 
destroyed, or purloined, it shall be made good by an assess- 
ment on all the students. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Of the Patron. 

121. Some gentleman of Cambridge, not of the Faculty, 
shall be appointed by the Corporation to be Patron of all 
students not of this Commonwealth, who belong to places 
more than one hundred miles distant from Cambridge, and 
whose parents or guardians desire to avail themselves of the 



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regulation herein provided, and the Patron shall have charge 
of all the funds of such students. 

122. The parent or guardian of each student shall be in- 
formed what are the necessary annual expenses included in 
the term bills ; and he shall also be informed by the Patron 
what funds for the support and use of his son or ward must 
be remitted to him ; and the Patron is to have the whole 
control of the same, under the direction of the Faculty. 

123. Every student subject to the Patron law is to be 
charged in his term bill at the rate of two and one half per 
centum, as a compensation to the Patron for the disburse- 
ments made on his account. 

124. No such student is allowed to contract any debt 
without an order from the Patron, or from his parent or 
guardian. 

125. The written excuses provided for by Articles 109, 
110, of these laws, may be signed by the Patron for students 
placed under his care ; and in all cases of other students, not 
belonging to this State nor living within a hundred miles of 
Cambridge, by some friend of approved discretion, residing 
in the vicinity of the University. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Term Bills, Steward, and Superintendent of Buildings. 

126. The bills of all students resident at the University 
for College charges and expenses shall be made out twice a 
year, at the end of each term ; and lawful interest shall be 
paid upon every bill which is not discharged by the first 
Monday of the term next succeeding that for which the bill 
was issued. And if any student shall neglect to pay to the 
Steward, on or before the second day of every term, each 
term bill due by him, except the last, he shall not be permit- 
ted to continue at the University. If any student shall be 
absent for non-payment of a bill for more than one month 
after the beginning of the term when payment ought to 
have been made by this law, his connection with the Uni- 
versity shall cease ; nor shall he be readmitted except on the 
usual conditions of readmission after a separation. 

327. The Steward has the general superintendence of the 
College edifices, and of the other buildings, and the real 
estate of the University, in the city of Cambridge. He is, 



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from time to time, in connection with the Superintendent of 
Public Buildings, to examine the exterior and interior state 
of those edifices, and, with the approbation of the President, 
cause such repairs thereon, and on the inclosures of the 
University grounds, as may appear necessary or proper, 
the amount on any building not to exceed one hundred 
dollars. 

128. He will, at some convenient time before or after 
Commencement, in company with the Superintendent, ex- 
amine the rooms inhabited, by students, and estimate and 
assess any damage done to any room during the year pre- 
ceding, beyond the ordinary and reasonable wear. In con- 
junction with the Superintendent he will cause every room, 
at the beginning of each year, to be put into decent and 
proper condition, prior to its being occupied. For the cus- 
tomary repairs of the rooms, the occupants will apply to the 
officer resident in the entry, and, where there is no officer, to 
such person as may be designated. 

129. The Steward, being furnished with directions and 
documents by the Faculty, shall make out the general term 
bill, which he shall enter upon the book of term bills ; and 
he shall deliver to each student his particular bill. 

130. The Steward shall engage proper servants and per- 
sons to perform labor for the University, such servants and 
persons to be approved by the President, and to be remov- 
able by him for any sufficient cause. The Steward shall 
also perform the services which he has been accustomed to 
perform, in relation to the accounts of the contractor for 
Commons and for dinners at the Commencement and on 
other occasions. No wine or other intoxicating drink, or 
tobacco, shall be served at any Commencement dinner, or 
any other public entertainment given by the Corporation. 

131. The Steward shall collect whatever is charged in the 
several term bills. He shall settle his account, at the end of 
each month, with the Treasurer of the University, and ad- 
just his balance. 

132. It is the duty of the Superintendent of Public Build- 
ings to have the immediate charge of the edifices, grounds, 
and inclosures of the University ; to superintend all repairs 
upon the same, and the erection of all new buildings, under 
the direction of the Steward ; to do such part of the work 
himself as is consistent with the proper direction of those 
employed by him ; and to aid the Steward in the general 
care and preservation of the College property. 

133. The Steward and Superintendent of Public Build- 



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ings shall receive a fixed salary, to be established by the 
Corporation, which shall be in full for all services. 

134. The Steward is authorized to employ an assistant to 
aid him in the clerical business of his office, to whom the 
Corporation may assign rooms for his residence in Gradu- 
ates' Hall, in which case he shall also act as superintendent 
of that building, and exercise therein the same authority for 
the preservation of order, as is exercised by the Proctors in 
the other College buildings. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Laws and Regulations of the Public Library. 
1. Name. 

135. The Public Library of the University is kept in 
Gore Hall. It is for the common use of the whole Univer- 
sity. Its privileges are also granted to persons, hereinafter 
specified, not connected with the University ; and it is ac- 
cessible to the public, under special regulations and restric- 
tions. 

136. The Boylston Medical Library is immediately con- 
nected with it, and is designed for the use of the Professors 
of the Medical School, and of the students while attending 
the. Medical Lectures, and also for the members of the Med- 
ical Society of Massachusetts residing within ten miles of 
the University. 

2. Keepers. 

137. The care of the Public Library is committed to the 
Librarian, Assistants, and Janitor. 

138. The Librarian is chosen, like the other officers of the 
University, by the Corporation, with the concurrence of the 
Overseers ; he is to continue in office during their pleasure, 
and he shall be subject to removal for neglect of duty or 
misbehavior. 

139. On his election, he shall be furnished with an exact 
account of the state of the Library, by his predecessor, or 
by a committee appointed by the Corporation to examine 
the Library, and draw up a written statement respecting it, 
wherein shall be specified the titles of all the missing books. 

140. He shall be held accountable for the safe keeping 
and good care of the books committed to his charge ; and if 



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any damage come to the Library by his neglect or by his 
non-observance of the laws and regulations of the Library, 
it shall be made good by him out of his salary, or otherwise. 

141. He shall superintend and direct the internal admin- 
istration of the Library, with the approbation of the Corpo- 
ration; and he shall regularly and faithfully perform the 
duties of his office. 

142. He shall ordinarily attend to the delivery and return 
of books borrowed from the Library, and keep a record of 
the same ; and he shall not be absent from the Library un- 
necessarily during the Library hours. 

143. It shall be his duty to acknowledge every donation 
to the Library by a letter of thanks, which shall be signed 
by the President on the part of the Corporation, and also by 
the Librarian, who shall then direct the same, and seal it 
with the College seal, and transmit it, at the charge of the 
Corporation, or otherwise, free of expense to the donor. And 
he shall have the management of all other official correspon- 
dence relating to the Library. 

144. Annually, before the end of the second College term, 
the Librarian shall have the Library put in order for exami- 
nation, and shall require all the books to be returned, and 
have them cleaned and arranged in their proper places ; and 
he shall make a written report to the Examining Commit- 
tee, and to the Corporation, of the state of the Library, of 
the books added by donation or otherwise, and of those 
which have been lost, since the last annual examination. 

145. He shall arrange and call the procession on Com- 
mencement days, if requested, and shall read the public in- 
vitation to the dinner. He shall have the care of the College 
charters and seal, and shall carry the same when a President 
is inaugurated. 

146. The Librarian, with the advice and consent of the 
Faculty, shall have authority to make such regulations, from 
time to time, respecting the use of the Library by the stu- 
dents, as he may deem expedient, subject to the approval of 
the Corporation. 

147. The Librarian shall have liberty to suspend from the 
privilege and use of the Library any student who shall vio- 
late any of the laws or regulations thereof, or be guilty of 
any flagrant breach of propriety ; but, in that case, he shall 
immediately make report of the same to the President, who 
may restore the privilege, or otherwise, as he may think 
proper. 

148. In case of the sickness, death, or resignation of the 



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Librarian, the President shall appoint some person to take 
his place, until it be otherwise regularly filled. 

149. Whenever an assistant or clerk becomes necessary in 
the Library, a suitable person shall be appointed by the Cor- 
poration, and receive such compensation as shall be agreed 
upon, and continue in office during the pleasure of the Cor- 
poration. 

150. The Assistant shall perform such duties as may be 
necessary in the care and administration of the Library, 
under the direction of the Librarian, at such times as shall 
be previously determined by the Corporation. He shall also 
attend to the delivery and return of books in the absence of 
the Librarian, and at other times, when the Librarian is 
otherwise necessarily engaged. 

151. The Librarian, or his Assistant, or some person des- 
ignated to perform their duty by or with the consent of the 
President, shall remain in Cambridge during the vacations, 
to attend to the delivery and return of books at the regular 
times. 

152. The Janitor shall be appointed by the Steward; and 
it shall be his duty to open and shut the doors, windows, 
and blinds of the Library, and to see that the same are prop- 
erly secured at night. He shall make the fires, clean the 
books, and wait upon the Librarian, Assistant Librarian, 
students, and visitors. He shall perform all his duties punc- 
tually and faithfully, to the satisfaction of the President and 
the Librarian ; and, in case of failure or other misdemeanor, 
he shall be subject to immediate dismission. 

153. No person shall have a key to the Library, except 
the President, the Librarian, the Assistants, and the Janitor. 
They shall not let the keys go from their personal custody ; 
and no person shall be admitted into the Library, except in 
the presence of one of them. 

3. Arrangement of the Library. 

154. The Library shall be properly aired and ventilated in 
summer, and shall be made comfortably warm in w r inter, 
during Library hours. Great care shall be taken to preserve 
the books from dampness and from dust. No academical 
exercises shall be allowed in the Library. It shall never be 
lighted or illuminated; nor shall an open lighted candle or 
lamp be carried or used in it; excepting, only, when the Li- 
brarian is obliged to seal official letters with wax, he may, 
with proper precautions, use a lighted taper for that purpose. 

155. The books in the Library having been classified and 



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arranged according to subjects, the same classification and 
arrangement shall be continued, with such modifications and 
improvements as may be found practicable and convenient 
by the Librarian, with the approbation of the Corporation. 

156. All donations of books, on the same subject, to the 
amount of one thousand dollars, or upwards, shall be kept 
together in one place in the Library. 

157. In all cases, when books are given, or money for the 
purchase of books, the names of the donors shall be written 
in the volumes thus given or purchased, and shall also be 
recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose in the Li- 
brary. 

158. The names of the donors of books to the amount of 
one thousand dollars, or upwards, shall be put upon the al- 
cove containing such books, or in some other conspicuous 
place in the Library ; as, also, the names of donors which 
were displayed in the Library before its removal from Har- 
vard Hall. 

159. An engraved print of the College seal, with a blank 
space to insert the name of the donor and the date of recep- 
tion, shall be pasted in the beginning or end of every bound 
volume, and the particulars above specified shall be written 
thereon. The place or number of the alcove or shelf of 
every book shall be inserted in the book, before it is lent 
from the Library. 

160. The books most suitable for the use of the Under- 
graduates shall be separated from the rest, and shall be kept 
in the Librarian's room, where they shall be accessible to 
the students, and may be borrowed by them. 

161. The manuscripts, and costly books of prints, shall be 
kept in the cabinets, and shall not be borrowed from the Li- 
brary, without special permission of the Corporation. 

162. All the separate maps and charts shall be kept in 
suitable cases, and shall be marked or numbered in such 
manner as to be easily found by the catalogue. 

4. Catalogues. 

163. The titles of all books, pamphlets, prints, and maps, 
added to the Library from time to time, shall be entered, 
chronologically, in a book or books made for the purpose ; 
wherein, also, shall be recorded the names of the several do- 
nors, the condition of the books as to binding, and other 
particulars worthy of note. 

164. All periodical publications shall be recorded, as re- 
ceived, in a book prepared for the purpose. 

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165. A written catalogue of the books on every shelf in 
each alcove, to be called the Alcove Catalogue, shall be 
placed therein, for the use of the Librarian and the Exam- 
ining Committee, in taking an account of the books, and to 
ascertain whether they are in their places. 

166. A catalogue of all the books in the Library, with the 
number of the alcove or shelf where each book is placed, 
written against the title thereof, shall be kept in the Library 
for common use. 

167. A catalogue of the whole Library, or of the addi- 
tions made to it, shall be arranged in such manner, and 
printed at such times, as the Corporation may direct ; and, 
for the service of preparing it, a suitable compensation shall 
be f allowed. 

168. A catalogue of all the works which, from time to 
time, may be sent to be bound or repaired, shall be made 
and kept in the Library ; and there shall be sent to the bind- 
er a list of the back-titles of the books, and written directions 
in regard to the binding or repairs. 

5. Library Hours. 

169. In term time the Library shall be open on the first 
four secular days of the week, from 9 A. M. till 1 P. M., and 
from 2 till 4 P. M. ; and on Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 1 
P. M. ; excepting the first Friday of each term, Christmas 
day, the days of public Fast and Thanksgiving, and the 
Fridays following them, the Fourth of July, and the days of 
public Exhibitions and the Dudleian Lecture, during the ex- 
ercises. 

170. In the vacations, the Library shall be open every 
Monday, from 9 in the morning till 1 P. M. 

171. All persons who wish to have access to the Library, 
or to bring their friends to see it, are expected to make their 
visits on the days and within the hours above named. 

6. Borrowers of Books. 

The following persons only shall have a right to borrow 
books from the Library : — 

172. The members of the Corporation and of the perma- 
nent Board of Overseers ; the Governor, Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Rep- 
resentatives, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts ; the Officers of Instruction and Government 
of the University, and the College Steward ; Resident Grad- 
uates, and Resident Professional Students, giving bonds, 



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with the consent of the Faculty ; Undergraduates of the 
College ; — 

173. The members of the Council, Senate, and House of 
Representatives, during the session of the General Court, on 
application made by a written order of the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, the President of the Senate, or the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives ; — 

174. The members of the Examining Committees of the 
University, during the year for which they hold their ap- 
pointments ; — 

175. Former Officers of Instruction and Government of 
the University, residing in Cambridge ; — 

176. Benefactors to the Library, to the amount of forty 
dollars, during their residence in Cambridge ; — 

177. Benefactors to the Library, residing in any other 
town in the Commonwealth, who have made a donation to 
the amount of two hundred dollars, — on application to the 
Corporation, and upon such conditions as may by the latter 
be required ; — 

178. Regularly ordained clergymen, of all denominations, 
who have been educated at any public college or university, 
or who have received a degree at this University, living 
within ten miles of the Library, upon the same terms as the 
Overseers ; — 

179. And other clergymen, within the same distance, not 
coming under the foregoing description, — upon application 
to the President, and at the discretion of the President or 
Corporation ; — 

180. Persons, not inhabitants of Cambridge, but having a 
temporary residence therein for the purpose of study, may 
borrow books from the Library, with permission of the Pres- 
ident, according to the conditions and regulations prescribed, 
— application to be made in writing to the Librarian. 

181. The Corporation may, for special reasons, grant the 
privilege of the Library to other persons than the foregoing. 

182. The Professors of the Medical School, students at- 
tending the Medical Lectures in Boston and in Cambridge, 
during the same, and all members of the Medical Society 
of Massachusetts who reside within ten miles of the Univer- 
sity, shall have a right to borrow books from the Boylston 
Medical Library, under the same rules and regulations as 
are made and provided for the use of the Public Library 
of the University. 



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7. Special Laws. 

183. All persons, while in the Library, are to remain un- 
covered, and to refrain from loud conversation, and from 
other improprieties of speech and deportment. 

184. No person, except the Librarian and Assistants, shall 
go into any of the alcoves of the General Library, or take 
any book from the shelves therein, except under such special 
regulations as may hereafter be established. 

185. No person shall ordinarily be allowed to borrow from 
the Library more than three volumes at the same time, ex- 
cept the Officers of Instruction and Government, and the 
Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, each of whom 
shall be allowed 'to borrow; six; provided, moreover, that 
should they, at any time, have occasion for more than six 
books, they shall be allowed an additional number, to be re- 
turned at the end of six weeks. If any Resident Graduate 
or Professional Student represent to the Librarian that he is 
engaged in the study of some particluar subject, on account 
of which he has occasion for more books, the Librarian may, 
at his discretion, permit him to have an additional number. 
If, also, any Undergraduate should need additional books in 
preparing for a public exhibition or for an exercise on 
Commencement day, the Librarian may permit him to have 
them, on the usual terms. 

186. No student shall keep any book belonging to the Li- 
brary more than six weeks ; nor any other person, more than 
three months. 

187. No book shall be borrowed from the Library, or re- 
turned to it, without the knowledge and presence of the Li- 
brarian or his Assistant, who shall take particular notice of 
the state of each book, when delivered out, and when re- 
turned. The Librarian shall keep a fair and regular account 
of the books borrowed and returned, under the name of each 
person, with the date when each book is borrowed, and a 
note of its place in the Library ; which account shall be 
signed by the borrower, if present ; otherwise the book may 
be delivered to his written application. And it shall be the 
duty of every person to return the books he may have bor- 
rowed to the Librarian or to the Assistant, and to see the 
same regularly discharged from his account. 

188. Persons sending for books are required to make, sign, 
and date a written order for them, and to insert therein the 
name of the author and the words of the title of each book, 
as given in the printed catalogue. 



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189. If any student take a book or books from the Libra- 
ry without the knowledge and consent of the Librarian or 
the Assistant, or if he voluntarily mutilate any volume, he 
shall be liable to the penalty of dismission or expulsion from 
the University ; and if any other person, having a right to 
use the Library, shall in like manner transgress the rules, he 
shall be suspended from the exercise of that right, during the 
pleasure of the Corporation. 

190. If any person desires to borrow a book which is lent 
out of the Library, he may leave his name and the title of 
the book with the Librarian ; and, when the book shall be 
returned, the Librarian shall reserve it for the person so ap- 
plying, provided the latter call for it within a week, or, if he 
be an Undergraduate, at his next time of receiving books 
from the Library. 

191. No person shall lend to any other a book which he 
has borrowed from the Library, nor let it go from under his 
personal custody. 

192. No student shall carry a book belonging to the Li- 
brary out of town, without special leave from the President. 

193. No person shall write or mark in a book belonging 
to the Library, except the Librarian, or the President, or 
some person authorized to do so by them. 

194. When there are two or more copies of the same 
book, the least elegant or rare shall be lent first ; and the 
Librarian shall use his discretion in regard to the lending of 
rare or costly works, which are not otherwise restricted. 

195. In term time, each member of the Senior and Junior 
Classes may borrow from the Library, of such books as are 
selected for their use, not more than three volumes at a time, 
twice a week; and each student of the Sophomore and 
Freshman Classes, not more than two volumes, once a week. 
They may also borrow books from the General Library, on 
application to the Librarian, and with the same restrictions. 

196. The members of the Theological, Law, and Scien- 
tific Schools, and the Resident Graduates, may borrow three 
volumes at a time, four times a week, in term time, on such 
days, and during such hours, as the Librarian, with the ad- 
vice and consent of the President, shall appoint. 

197. The Undergraduates may apply for books and re- 
ceive them, in term time, in the following order : — 

198. The Senior and Junior Sophisters, on Mondays and 
Thursdays ; the Sophomores, on Tuesdays ; and the Fresh- 
men, on Wednesdays ; — during such hours as the Libra- 
rian, with the advice and consent of the Faculty, shall di- 
rect. 



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199. The times for returning books, by the members of 
the Theological, Law, and Scientific Schools, by Resident 
Graduates, and by Undergraduates, shall be the same as 
those appointed for borrowing them. 

200. In the vacations, books may be borrowed and re- 
turned every Monday forenoon, by those students who have 
obtained a certificate of leave to remain in Cambridge dur- 
ing the vacation ; as, also, by other persons than students 
who have a right to the use of the Library. 

201. Every student, before leaving College for an expect- 
ed absence of more than one week, shall return the books 
he may have from the Library. 

202. All books borrowed by the students shall be returned 
on or before the Thursday immediately preceding the winter 
vacation. 

203. Every person, without exception, having books from 
the Library, shall return them, as soon, at the latest, as the 
fourth "Wednesday before Commencement ; and all the 
books shall be retained in the Library, from and after said 
day, for the annual examination, till the end of the term. 

* 204. If any student shall fail to return all the books he 
has borrowed from the Library, within the times specified in 
the three foregoing sections, he shall be subject to a fine of 
twenty-five cents per day for every volume unreturned. 

205. If any student shall fail to comply with the other 
laws regulating the borrowing and returning of books, and 
the lending, or carrying them out of town, such student shall 
be reported to the President, and he shall be liable to the 
suspension of his privilege in the Library, or to some other 
penalty, at the discretion of the President. 

206. If any person, other than a student, shall keep a book 
belonging to the Library more than, three months, without 
renewing the same, he shall be subject to a fine of one dollar 
per week for every volume unreturned, after notice left at 
his usual place of residence or duly given by mail or other- 
wise ; and if he fail to return all the books he has borrowed 
from the Library, agreeably to the provisions made for the 
return of books for the annual examination, he shall be lia- 
ble to fine of twenty-five cents per day for every volume un- 
returned, and to a suspension of his privilege until the same 
be paid. 

207. If any book borrowed from the Library be injured 
or defaced, by writing in it or otherwise, or be lost, the Li- 
brarian shall make immediate report of it to the President. 
And if the borrower be a student in either of the Schools, a 



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Resident Graduate, or an Undergraduate, he shall either re- 
place it immediately with one of equal value, or be charged 
with the cost of it in his term bill ; and, if such volume be 
a part of a set, the borrower shall be obliged to replace or 
pay for the whole set, or be charged as above ; and, until 
this be done, he shall not be allowed to borrow any other 
book. If any other person shall injure, deface, or lose a 
book borrowed from the Library he shall make it good. 

208. No student shall be admitted to the first degree, nor 
any resident Bachelor to a second degree, till he has pro- 
duced to the President a certificate from the Librarian, that 
he has returned in good order, or replaced, every book that 
he has borrowed ; or, in default thereof, has deposited with 
the Librarian double the value of it in money, or, if it be a 
part of a set, double the value of the whole set. And no 
student shall be permitted to take up his bond, or shall be 
discharged from his responsibilities by the Steward, till he 
has obtained from the Librarian, and exhibited to the Stew- 
ard, a certificate as above described. 



INDEX. 



The figures indicate the number of the law referred to. 



Absence from exercises and neglect of 
duties, how punished, 67. 

from public examinations, how 

punished, 71. 

in term time, how restricted, 

106-108. 

leave for, how granted, 108, 109. 

leave of, and excuse for, how 

granted, 110. 

duty of students re- 
turning after, 105. 

in term time, how 



38. 



granted, 108. 
Academical exercises not permitted in 

the Library, 154. 
Account, detailed, to be given by Patron 

to the Faculty, 121. 
Admission to advanced standing, 40. 

i — to College, 36. 

: . acknowledgment 

upon, 48. 

bond, 45. 

examination for, 

matriculation, 42. 

on conditions, 41 . 

on probation, 42. 

qualifications for, 

37, 39. 
Admittance to full standing, when and 

how, 42. 
Alcove Catalogue, 165. 
Alford Foundation, 78. 
Animal, none to be kept without license, 

103. 
Assaulting a student, how punished, 103. 
Assessments for damage done, when 

made, and in what manner, 119. 
Assistant Librarian, 149, 
» duties of, 150. 

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Associating with a person dismissed, or 
expelled, how punished, 103. 

Attendance on devotional exercises and 
religious services, 48-52. ^ 

on the instruction of any 



teacher not licensed, 103. 



B. 



Bachelor of Arts, degree of, 81. 

of Laws, degree of, 88. 

Beneficiaries, how selected, 78, 79. 
Beneficiary foundations, 78. 
Boarding and lodging-houses to be ap- 
proved by the Faculty, 117. 

out of College, how restricted 



and regulated, 117. 
Bond given on admission, 45. 
Bonfires, making of, prohibited, and how 

punished, 103. 
Books, application for, at the Library, 

when to be made, 169. 

from the Library, on what days 



and hours to be applied for, 169. 

■ injured, defaced, or lost, to be re- 



ported to the Faculty, 189, 207, 

lost/ how to be replaced, 207. 

most suitable for use of under- 



graduates, 160. 

not to be borrowed or returned 



without the knowledge of the Libra- 
rian a or his Assistant, 187. 

not to be lent, 161, 190. 

not to be taken down from the 

shelves and alcoves without special 
permission of the Librarian, 184. 

persons allowed to borrow, 172. 

privilege of borrowing, when to 

be suspended, 172-182. 

what, may be borrowed, how 

many, and how to be obtained, 185. 



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Books, when to be returned, 201 - 204. 
Bowdoin Prize Dissertations, 75. 
Fund, how awarded, 75, 

76. 

Prizes for Latin verse, 76. 

Boylston Medical Library, 136, 182. 

Prize Declamation, 77. 

Fund, 77. 

how distributed. 77. 

Buildings and property, damage done 

to, how made good, 119. 



Candidates for first degree, how to be 
dressed, 86. 

Cards, playing at, prohibited, 103. 

Catalogue of Library, 163 - 168. 

, Alcove, 165. 

Challenging a student, how punished, 
103. 

Charter and seal, care of, by the Libra- 
rian, 145. 

Christmas day, 107. 

Civil tribunals, when to be resorted to, 
101. 

Class meetings, how regulated and re- 
stricted, 103. 

not to be held without 

license, 103. 

when punished as unlaw- 
ful combinations, 103. 

College Faculty, 13, 14, 20. 

■ meetings of, 18. 

Combinations to resist or disobey the 
laws, how punished, 103. 

Commencement day, 81. 

dinner, no intoxicating 

liquors or tobacco to be provided for, 
130. 

duties of those who 



have parts, 84. 



86. 



literary exercises, 83 



Committees of Examination, how and 
when notified, 70. 

how to es- 
timate the performances of the student, 
71. 

Compensation to Patron, 121. 

Connection with the University, how 
closed, 43. 

Conversation not permitted in the Li- 
brary, 186. 

Corporation, 3. 

Secretary of, 7. 

Crimes, when to be prosecuted before 
the civil tribunals, 101. 

D. 

Damage done to buildings or property, 
how punished, 119. 



Damage done to utensils in the hall, how 
to be assessed, and on whom, 120. 

when assessed, how appropri- 



ated, 120. 

Debt, students not to incur, without an 
order from parent, guardian, or pa- 
tron, 124. 

Deductions on the scale, 67. 

Defacing books belonging to the Libra- 
ry, how punished, 189, 207. 

or injuring College edifices or 



property, how punished, 119. 
Degree, academical, duties of those who 
receive, 82. 

candidates for the first, at Com- 



mencement, how to be dressed, 86. 

not to be conferred on those 



who refuse to perform their parts, 83. 
Delinquent students, 92. 
Departments, or schools of instruction, 

55. 
heads of, 56. 



Deturs, 73, 74. 

Devotional exercises, duty of students 

at, 48. 
Dice, playing at, prohibited, 103. 
Director of Observatory gives receipt for 

property, 33. 
Discipline, course of, in the University, 

90. 
Dismission, for general unfitness, 102. 
• its nature and consequences, 



96. 



readmission of a dismissed 

student, 96. 
Disorderly conduct to be recorded and 

reported, 90. 
Dissoluteness, how punished, 103. 
Dog not to be kept, 103. 
Dress of candidates for first degree, 86. 

of students, how regulated, 17. 

of undergraduates, 17. 



Dudleian Lecture, 49. 



E. 



Examination, what is the student's duty 
when accepted upon, 45. 

Examinations, absences from, how pun- 
ished, 71. 

Committees of, how and 



when notified, 70. 



report to 

Overseers, 72. 

- of the public Library, 144, 



203. 



scale, 71. 



public, 69. 

result of, entered on the 



Faculty for, 70. 
Excuses, 109, 110. 



time appointed by the 



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Excuses, written, 125. 

Exercises at Exhibitions, copy of, to be 
handed to the President, 80. 

may be required to be perform- 
ed in vacations, 68. 

students', how affected by va- 
cations, 68. 

what, to be performed in case 

of absence, 92. 

Exhibitions, 80. 

— performances at, 80. 

when and how exercises at 

them are assigned and regulated, 80. 

Expulsion, its nature and consequences, 
97. 

Extravagance, habitual, how punished, 
103. 



F. 



Faculty approve boarding-houses, 117. 

assign rooms, 113. 

give information to parents and 

guardians of conduct of students, 90, 

92. 

how to punish combinations for 



resistance and disobedience, 103. 

how to punish offences which 



have no specific penalties, 98. 

license instructors, 16. 

may dismiss students not fulfil- 



ling, or likely to fulfil, purposes of 
residence ; or advise parent or guar- 
dian to remove them, 102. 

may require students to perform 



exercises in vacations, 68. 

meetings of, 18. 

of the College, who constitute 



the, 13, 

regulate mode of granting leave, 



and receiving excuse for absences, 110. 

their authority, 16. 

when they make a selection for 



punishment, 103. 
East day, 48, 49. 
Festive entertainment, making or being 

present at, when prohibited, and how 

punished, 103. 
Fine for not returning books to the Li- 
brary, 266. 
Fines, 90. 
Fireworks, making of, prohibited, how 

punished, 103. 
Firing of a gun, pistol, or gunpowder, in 

Cambridge, prohibited, 103. 
Fourth of July, 107. 
Furniture and fuel of rooms, who are to 

find, 116. 



G. 



Gaming, how punished, 103. 



Gun, not to be kept, 103. 
Gunpowder, not to be kept, 103. 



H. 



Habitual extravagance, how punished, 
103. 

Harvard College, President and Fellows 
of, 3. 

High offences, their nature and punish- 
ments, 103. 

Hollis Foundation, how distributed, 78. 

Hopkins Fund, how applied, 73. 

Horse, not to be kept without license, 
103. 

Hours for resort to the Library, 1 69. 

of study, how established, 53, 54. 



I. 

Illuminations, unauthorized, prohibited, 
and how punished, 103. 

Immorality, how punished, 103. 

Improvement in scholarship, 74. 

Indecency in language, dress, or behav- 
ior, how punished, 103. 

Injuries or trespasses, how punished, 
101. 

Instructors not officers of the University, 
how licensed, 16. 

of the University not to re- 



ceive presents, 32. 
Intoxication, how punished, 103. 



Janitor of the Library, 137, 152. 

E. 

Key of the Library, 153. 

L. 

Language, profane, disrespectful, or un- 
becoming, how punished, 103. 

Laws of the Commonwealth, when re- 
sort to be had to them, 101. 

violation of. to be recorded and 



reported, 91. 

Leave of absence, duty of students re- 
turning after, 105. 

for a night in term 



time, how granted, 109. 

permission for, 108, 



110. 



111. 



to keep school, 60, 



Lectures and exercises, arrangement of ; 

57. 
Librarian, duties of, 26, 139, 143. 



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Librarian gives receipt for property, 33. 

how chosen, 138. 

to keep account of books bor- 
rowed and returned, 142. 

to report to the Faculty any 

books defaced, injured, or lost. 144. 

to subscribe engagement, 29. 

Assistant, 149. 

Library, regulations of, 135, and the fol- 
lowing sections. 

when open, and when may be 

closed, 169. 

Lighted candle or lamp not permitted in 
the Library, 154. 

Literary exercises, permission to make 
up, 59, 60. 

exertions, encouragements, and 

rewards for, 73. 

Lord's day, behavior on, 50. 

duty of students, 48, 49, 50. 

1 exercises of the, 48. 

students allowed to attend 

public worship at home, 52. 

— students may attend the pub- 
lic worship of any denomination of 
Christians, on what conditions, 51. 

M. 

Manuscripts, 161. 

Maps and charts, how kept, 162. 

Master of Arts, degree of, 87. 

Matriculation, requisites for, 42. 

Merit, scale of, how made, 63. 

Misdemeanors, their nature and punish- 
ment, 103. 

when to be prosecuted 

before the civil tribunals, 101. 

Monitors, 31, 79. 

Monthly returns, 58. 

N. 

Natural Philosophy, Professor of, to give 
receipt for property, 33f 

O. 

Offences against the laws of the land? 
punishment of, 101, 

committed by or in the pres- 
ence of numbers, 100. 

for which punishment is not 

specifically provided, 98. 

high, 103. 

repeated, how punished, 99. 

repetition of, 99. 

their nature and punishment, 

98-103. 

the oldest concerned in, when 

to be selected for punishment, 103. 

Officer, particular, for each class, 27. 



Officers not to hold any other office, 34. 

of instruction and government, 

tenure of office, 28. 

to aid the President, 91. 



Overseers, 8. 

— committees appointed by, 69. 

presiding officer of, 9. 

Secretary of, 9. 



Parents or guardians to be informed of 

the students' conduct, 90. 
Patron, 121. 

— laws relative to the, 121. 

regulations concerning, 122-124. 



Pennoyer Foundation, 78. 

Performances at Commencement, copies 

of, to be delivered to the President, 84. 

penalty for additions to, 



or for uttering what has been directed 
to be omitted, 85. 

Periodical publications, 164. 

Polite accomplishments, teachers of, 16. 

Prayers morning and evening, 48, 49. 

Presents not allowed to instructors or 
officers of the University, 32. 

President and Fellows of Harvard Col- 
lege, 3. 

a member of the Faculty, 13. 

authorized to appoint private 

secretary, 24. 

duties of the, 4, 10, 21 - 23. 

Prize Fund, Bowdoin, 75. 

Boylston, 77. 

Hopkins, 73. 



Probation prolonged, 43. 

what, and how long contin- 
ued, 43, 44. 

when closed, and what its 

consequences, 43. 

when finally closed, 43. 

Proctors, their authority, 30. 

to reside in College buildings, 

25. 

to subscribe engagement, 29. 

Profane language, how punished, 1 03. 

Professional and Scientific Schools, 
members of, to sign acknowledgment 
on admission, 46. 

Professors, duties of, 26, 56. 

not members of the Faculty, 

19. 

to make reports, 56. 

to subscribe the statutes of 



their professorship, 29. 

unless exempted, to reside 

at Cambridge, 25. 

which of the, are of the Fac- 



ulty, 25. 

Property, buildings, damage done to, 
how punished, 119. 



45 



Prosecution before the tribunals of the 
State, in what case to be instituted, 
101. 

Public worship at other places in Cam- 
bridge than the chapel, 51. 

permission to attend at 

home, 52. 

Punishments for gross trespasses, what, 
101. 

how inflicted in cases where 

there are no specific penalties, 98. 

their nature and course, 



101. 



Pv. 



Readmission, 44. 

Eecess in second term, 106. 

Refusing to attend when sent for by the 
Faculty or any officer, how punished, 
103. 

Registrar, duties and salary of, 35. 

Repetition of offences, how punished, 99. 

Resident Graduates, 47. 

Resisting instructors, how punished, 103. 

Return of books to the Library, when to 
be made, 203. 

Returns weekly and monthly, 58, 61, 62. 

Rewards and encouragements, how es- 
tablished for literary exercises, 73. 

Riotous behavior, how punished, 103. 

Rooms, disorder in, occupants responsi- 
ble for, 115. 

examination of, 128. 

fuel and furniture of, who to find, 

116. 

in College, occupation of, 113. 

may be forcibly entered by Col- 
lege officers, 115. 

occupied by two students, 116. 

students' duty in respect of, 114. 

students not to change without 



leave, 114. 

to be assigned by the Faculty , 



113. 



Rumford Professor gives receipt for 
property, 33. 



Saltonstall Foundation, 78. 

Scale of merit, deductions from, 67. 

formation of, 63, 66. 

place of students admit- 
ted to advanced standing, 64. 

principles of the, 63 - 67. 



Scholarship, improvement in, 65 

School, what students are allowed to 
keep, and on what terms, 111. 

Schools, Professional and Scientific, 11. 

Professional and Scientific, Fac- 
ulty and Dean of, 12. 



Schools, Professional and Scientific, 
members of, to sign acknowledgment 
on admission, 46. 

Scientific School, certificate for students 
in, 89. 

Secretary of Corporation, 7. 
of Overseers, 9. 



Servants to be employed by Steward, 

130. 
Steward, duties of, 127, 131. 

to employ an assistant, 134. 



Stoughton Foundation, 78. 

Students accepted on examination, their 

duties, 45. 
allowed to make up omitted 

exercises, 59. 
consequences of terminating 

probation, 43. 
damages assessed on, when 

and in what manner, 119. 

delinquency of, how punished, 



92. 



dismissed, on what conditions 

may be restored, 96. 

doing damage to property or 

buildings, how punished, 119. 

— dress of, how regulated, 17. 
exercises of, how affected by 



vacations, 68. 

— failing to comply with the laws 



of the Library, how punished, 147. 
how and when they may ob- 
tain the use of the Library in vacation, 
200. 
if unfit member of the Uni- 



versity, may be dismissed, 102. 

may attend any denomination 



of Christian worship, 51. 

may be required to remain at 



the University in vacation, until exer- 
cises in which they have failed be per- 
formed, 68. 

meritorious, may be allowed 



to keep school, 111. 

must lodge a certificate of 

leave of absence, when and where, 
109. 

not likely to fulfil the pur- 
poses of his residence, to be dismissed, 
102. 
not to be absent a night in 



term time, without leave, 108. 
not to board in any house, ex- 
cept such as are approved by the Fac- 
ulty, 117. 

not to change rooms without 

leave, 114. 

not undergraduates, offences 

by, 15. 

probation of, how much it may 

be prolonged, 43. 
residing in Cambridge, to 



46 



have the use of the Library in vaca- 
tion, 200. 

Students, responsible for disorder in 
their rooms, 115. 

returning after leave of ab- 
sence, duty of, 105. 

suspended, how restored, and 

on what conditions, 93 - 95. 

their duty in respect of rooms 

and their occupation, 114. 

their duty in study hours, 54. 

their duty on return after any 

vacation, 105. 

their duty on the Lord's day, 

and at devotional exercises, 49. 

their performances, how esti- 
mated by committee of examination, 
71. 

to have their distinctions and 

punishments reported to their parents 
or guardians, 90. 

what required of them and on 

what conditions, 47. 

what they are to abstain from, 

on the Lord's day, 49. 

when and how permitted to 

rejoin the University after probation 
is closed, 44. 

when they may apply for 

books, 169. 

when to be prosecuted before 

the civil tribunals, 101. 

who may remain in Cam- 
bridge during vacation, and how reg- 
ulated, 112. 

Study hours, duty of students in, 54. 

how established, 53. 

Superintendent of Public Buildings, 
132. 

Suspension, its consequences and regu- 
lations, may be in Cambridge or some 
other town, 93-95. 

T. 

Tavern, going to, when prohibited, and 

how punished, 103. 
Teachers of polite accomplishments, 

how licensed, 16. 



Term bills, regulations concerning, 126, 
130. 

time, commencement of, 105. 



Thanksgiving holidays, 106. 

Theatrical exhibitions, being present or 
an actor at, prohibited, and how pun- 
ished, 103. 

Treasurer, duties of, 5, 7. 
gives bonds, 7. 



Trespasses, aggravated, how punished, 

103. 
Tutors, duties of, 26. 

members of the Faculty, 13. 

to reside in College buildings, 25. 

subscribe engagement, 29. 



U. 



University at Cambridge, 1, 11. 

government of, 2. 

Faculty of the, who consti- 



tute, 13. 



V. 



Vacations, duty of students on their re- 
turn after, 105. 

exercises may be required 



to be performed in, 68. 

how the exercises of stu- 



dents are affected by them, 105. 

their number and length, 

104. 



what students may, and 

what may not, remain in Cambridge 
during, 112. 

what students may have the 



use of Library in, 200. 
Victualling-house, going to, when and 

how punished, 103. 
Visitors to Library, 171. 



W. 



"Weekly returns, 6.1 . 
Worship, public, where students 
attend, on the Lord's day, 51. 



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